Hi, Tom, thanks! I'll take that advise. > but if you don't allow access to ports 5432 and 5433 > in the firewall the packets will never get to ... Adrian, i was talking about opening up the firewall for "the world" to my postgres ports, instead of granting access to individual ip addresses. Cheers! WBL -- "Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it." -- George Bernard Shaw -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general